Ghost of the Ozarks by Brooks Blevins PAPERBACK 9780252082573

Ghost of the OzarksMurder and Memory in the Upland South\nAuthor(s): Brooks Blevins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252082573, 978-0252082573\nSynopsis\nIn 1929, in a remote county of the Arkansas Ozarks, the gruesome murder of harmonica-playing drifter Connie Franklin and the brutal rape of his teenaged fiance captured the attention of a nation on the cusp of the Great Depression. National press from coast to coast ran stories of the sensational exploits of night-riding moonshiners, powerful \""Barons of the Hills,\"" and a world of feudal oppression in the isolation of the rugged Ozarks. The ensuing arrest of five local men for both crimes and the confusion and superstition surrounding the trial and conviction gave Stone County a dubious and short-lived [url] examining how the story and its regional setting were interpreted by the media, Brooks Blevins recounts the gripping events of the m.